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We're seeing some successes in gene therapy, but cost remains an issue. Could a modified version of HIV save the ...

It has always been difficult to determine how many humpback dolphin species there are. Many biologists think there are just ...

(Summary) Ingo Potrykus, chairman of the Golden Rice Humanitarian Board and former professor of plant sciences at the Swiss Federal ...

They are identical in almost every way, except one twin is fat and the other is thin. Now a study ...

23andMe received a patent for their family inheritance tool, which suggests likely traits for a couple's offspring. But the patent, ...

It's like pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Researchers have reached inside the brain of a rat and pulled ...

It'll make you cry, or salivate. Takashi Tsuji at Tokyo University of Science in Japan, and colleagues have created tear and salivary ...

Inside this fruit fly reproductive tract, a battle is taking place – a battle of sperm. In turquoise are the ...

Parts of us may never die – not quite, anyway. Lab tests involving microbes and a mammoth bone have shown ...

Opponents of genetic modification are up in arms again, this time over the proposed release of GM flies in Spain ...

Just three months after the UK started working toward mitochondria replacement therapy to circumvent genetic diseases, researchers are sounding an ...

A girl who does not feel physical pain has helped researchers identify a gene mutation that disrupts pain perception. The ...

You wouldn't expect forensic teams to waste valuable evidence. But it happens all the time, though perhaps not for much ...

Are you a south paw? Gibble-fisted? A cuddy-wifter? A new study into what makes people left-handed shows that some of ...

The intention behind routine genome sequencing is good, but could it obliterate the right to remain ignorant of potentially untreatable ...

FOR the Yuska family, the future of medicine is here. Thanks to genome sequencing, parents Danielle and Erik have a ...

Martian minerals dissolved in groundwater are much more likely to yield a key building block for life – phosphate – ...

New findings suggest that Mars holds the key ingredients needed for the evolution of life itself, suggesting that life may ...

Improvements in genome sequencing speed and cost led organizers to cancel the Genomics X Prize. But will the goal of ...

Flu scientists disagree over experiments to make the H7N9 bird influenza virus even more dangerous. Some argue that "gain of function" experiments ...

How should we regulate treatments that use cells taken from a patient's own body? If the cells are grown in ...

Time-lapse microscopy has captured severed DNA strands in the act of pairing up with partners from the wrong chromosomes – ...

NASA's Identical twin astronauts are splitting up to help scientists understand genetics of space health problems ...

Smithsonian's new exhibit explains how the human genome relates to health, medicine and ethics, but not really how it works ...

Fancy a liver that works a little harder? Synthetic DNA circuits inserted into human stem cells could soon allow us ...

It's often said that in a city, you're never far from a rat. Today's UK government figures for the numbers of ...

If you can't resist that extra portion of dessert, maybe it is time to stop bemoaning your lack of willpower ...

The more we know about the nature of reproduction, the more we can control it -- and our own future ...